Immortality Defended [Hardcover]

Might we be parts of a divine mind? Could anything like an afterlife make sense? Starting with a Platonic answer to why the world exists, Immortality Defended suggests we could well be immortal in all of three separate ways.

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• Tackles the fundamental questions posed by our very existence, among them, why does the cosmos exist? , is there a divine mind or God? , and in what sense might we have afterlives?
  
• Defends a belief in immortality, without the need for a religious affiliation or rejection of modern science
  
• Explores the ideas of Einsteinian immortality , the divine afterlife, and the theory of an infinite and divine mind
  
• Draws from the work of a wide-range of philosophers, from ancient Greece to the present day, and incorporates up-to-date scientific findings
  
• Written in a thought-provoking and engaging manner, accessible to anyone intrigued by the wonder of our being

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

1. Pantheism: A Rapid Introduction.

2. Platonic Creation.

3. Divine and Human Minds.

4. Immortality.

5. Existence, Causation, and Life.

Appendix: Brief Summary of the Book.

Bibliography.

Index of Names.

Index of Subjects

John Leslie addresses issues of belief in immortality and the creative role of value in a characteristically lively style, in the course of deploying a variety of arguments. He is always stimulating, even when one disagrees with him.
Revd Dr John Polkinghorne, KBE, FRS<!--end-->

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